The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1887-12-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

waxing wealthy in Wichita County,
Kan.
A lad only seven years old has been
sent to Jail in Franklin, Penn, for
malicious trespassing."
The Bath, Maine, Board of Trade
has appointed committee to form a
syndicate to build iron vessels.
The project for building bridge
over the Mississippi at Memphis seems
in way to take definite shape.
A Toronto editor has been fined
nearly three Thousand dollars for
severely criticising French Canadian
battalion.
A man named Jack Richardson had
both hls eyes put out recently by the
exploding Of a rifle cartridge near
Lexington, Ky.
The Soldiers Home at Marshall
town, Iowa, just dedicated. cost the
Legislature $4,000 and he people
Of the town $4,000
1t is said that 1000 Belgian miners
have been employed by Lehigh
Valley coal company to take the place
OF Its striking employees.
In the Mexican Presidential cam
paign the principal opposition to the
reelection of Diaz appears to be based
on his frlendliness for Americans.
The Mexican Government processes
to feel confident that the Cutting in.
demnity claim case will be satisfactory
adjusted with the United States.
Rev. DIR. Houghton of the Little
Church Around the Corner" has ac-
cepted the compliment of honorary
membership rendered him by the New
York Actors fund
The most delightful trip that can be
made during the Winter season
Is to California. 1t is the way to get
the greatest amount of pleasure for
the least money.-St. Louis Republi.
can.
The recent cold snap ha, somewhat
alarmed Florida orauge growers, and
the Savannah News says the conse-
qucnce is that fruit is being pushed
forward more rapidly than ever.
Charles r. ,Yitherili, a New Eng
lander. has just returned from South
America, where he went in early Sum
mer with cargo of horses and merino
sheep, which, he reports. found ready
sale in and around Buenos Ayres.
Iowa has just got its first Soldiers
Home. The noisiest State in the
Union in Its protestatons of love of
tee old soldiers, it is the last OF the
Northern States to provide a refuge
for them.-Chicago Times.
Counterfeit postal cards have been
discovered in Pittsburg, which have
been so skillfully executed that their
detection is very difficult. This is the
first attempt to put spurious postal
cards in circulation.
A company has been formed at
Boston for the purpose of building a
telegraph line from New York to San
Francisco. 1t is to be incorporated
with capital of $1,000, 900, and au-
thority to increase the same to 500.
600, 900.
1t is reported that the big gas wells
in the northwestern part of Ohio are
losing their pressure and turning to oil
wells. The news has created conster-
nation at Toledo, where natural gas is
largely used for heating purposes.
The Missouri Pacific Railway offers
tickets from Kansas City to Los
Angeles or San Francisco and return
for $50; the Iron Mountain route
from st. Louis to the same places and
return for S72 st. Louis Republi-
can.
Mrs. Maria Phillips of Denver, Col,
who is one hundred and one years old,
has just been committed to the poor
house by her relatives, who say that
she disturbs them by crying out in her
sleep and making other noises at night.
She is well preserved and habitual
smoker.
Dir. Hall of Jacksonville, Fla, who
recently offered, through the New
York World, to donate 100000 acres
of Georgia land to the evicted sons of
Ireland, has withdrawn his proposition.
He saws that ha has not racaivaJ q,